Editorial
Despicable misdemeanor
Where can the girls feel safe?
THE occasion was Nabobarsha and the place Dhaka University Campus. Both not just symbolically, but literally should be an association of most cultivated and refined thoughts. What could be a more ideal celebrative event evocative of the finest expressions of human sentiments of grace and greeting between brothers and sisters than Nabobarsha itself?
And right there it failed the test, so outrageously, that one is left wondering if one's daughter or sister is safe anywhere. Particularly, if the place is heaving with a sea of humanity.
It was all waiting to happen -- campus spaces let out for shopping as in a public bazar, three concerts were simultaneously on and there were fewer exits than entry points, with crowds surging from all sides into waves bursting at the seams.
Rogues got to work, tugging at sarees of women, in few cases, accompanied by their husband, encircling girls, hurling obscenities at them and trying to molest them as panicky cries from harassed and helpless women rent the air. Good Samaritans rescued some victims as the police claimed they brought 15 women and girls to safety.
The most pertinent question that follows from the description is: what were the security arrangements put together to avert any untoward incident at the campus and around? What happened to the DMP's claims of adequate security arrangements having been made for the Nabobarsha celebrations! Some heads must roll; for, it seems there were gaping holes in the arrangements.
Reports suggest that university authorities didn't give permission for the concerts. Who then authorised the these that virtually gave a handle to the rogues? If the DMP had given it, did it consult Dhaka University authorities and make the organisers responsible for their respective programmes. Within certain limits, the organisers could be allowed celebrative programmes, but that only subject to manageability and adherence to rules.
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